For further practice, you can do lessons 1–4 of the tutorial at http://try.ocamlpro.com/, and parts “Quick Language Overview” and “The Functional World” of the tutorial at http://www.tryfsharp.org/. Skip over the parts that you do not understand or that are too time-consuming. Unfortunately the F# tutorial wouldn’t work for me under Linux, but it works under Windows.

Installing on Windows:

The installer will also install Emacs. We will have several ways to use OCaml:

using the graphical toplevel OCamlWin.exe,

using any editor, e.g. OCamlBrowser, copying to the toplevel ocaml.exe and using the compiler ocamlc.exe,

using Emacs as we do under Linux.

Save common.ml Δ as .ocamlinit in a directory which OCaml will recognize (either “home” or where you start OCaml); or just # #use “path\to\common.ml”;; in the toplevel (where path\to is the directory in which you saved common.ml Δ).